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SXSW Friday Recap: TweetUps, Charlie the Unicorn and Scoble!March 9th, 2008 / Posted by Nathan T. Wright
Unbelievable! Day one of SXSW was packed with fantastic conversations and invaluable new friends. The day started with bacon, biscuits and a social media chat with former colleague Greg Swan (new media guru and founder of Perfect Porridge), Jim Turner of One by One Media and Rick Calvert, co-founder of BlogWorld.
In the middle of sitting in on the “How to rawk SXSW” session, word started to spread via Twitter of an impromptu tweetup happening at Champions sports bar across the street. Greg and I immediately ran to join this, and met all sorts of Tweeps including the legendary @Pistachio, @simedia, @kristanaeher, @newmediajim, @twalk, @hansveld and @waderockett, among others. A quick, grainy video of the tweetup is below.
As if the day couldn’t get any better, Charlie the Unicorn stopped by for a beer before wandering off across the street. YES. We later met Brian Shaler of Crappy Graphs fame, the one-and-only Robert Scoble, and co-creator of Fantasy Congress (Andrew Lee) in the Hilton lobby bar.
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Brian March 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Hey! I’m on Twitter too! I’d hate to be *just* “the Crappy Graphs” guy..
imelda March 10th, 2008 at 10:18 am
SXSW Unicorn ROCKS!
I also have a shot of Brian’s leg pierced. Check my site and flickr stream.
Rick Calvert March 12th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the link Nate. It was great meeting you 8).
Hope you can join us this September in Vegas.
Jim Turner March 15th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Yes, I am just now getting around to visiting all the new friends I made in Texas. Hope to see you again soon! Always nice to see a colleague in the heartland.
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